[R] HOW to Create Movies with R with repeated plot()?

[Jason W. Martinez]

Dear R-list,

I'm surprised that no one on this list has mentioned anything about the
ffmpeg tools! Hands down these are the tools to use for generating
animations and movies.

Processing the images is much quicker than imagemagick and with a little
tweaking, you can add additional filter effects to the images as they
are being processed.

http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php

Also see the smilutils and some examples at:

http://users.pandora.be/acp/ppmfilter/

Although I haven't used these tools in quite a while, I have been able 
to export the resulting mpeg files into VCD quality videos for playing
on DVDs.

I hope this helps.

Jason


On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 08:44, Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
> On 27-Jul-05 Jan Verbesselt wrote:
> > Dear R-helpers,
> > 
> > Is it possible to create a type of 'movie' in R based on the
> > output of several figures (e.g., jpegs) via the plot() function.
> > I obtained dynamic results with the plotting function and would
> > like to save these as a movie (e.g., avi or other formats)?
> 
> A similar question was discussed on R-help some months ago: Start
> at
> 
>   Cari G Kaufman <cgk at stat.cmu.edu>, 
>   "[R] animation without intermediate files?"
>   Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:21:36 -0500 (EST)
> 
> However, this is not quite your question! It seems you would be
> content with making a movie out of files already saved from R,
> so it's not a "real-time" situation.
> 
> There are several approaches you could adopt.
> 
> One (if you are using Linux with ImageMagick installed -- or if
> this is available for your platform if different) is to use the
> program 'animate' in that suite of programs.
> 
> The format of the image files does not matter for 'animate'
> (though I think all should have the same format), so they could
> be .jpg, .gif, etc. Suppose you had a set of files
> 
>   graph001.jpg
>   graph001.jpg
>   ...
>   graph100.jpg
> 
> then the command
> 
>   animate graph*.jpg
> 
> would present them as an animation in due order. There are several
> options to the 'animate' command which you can use to control
> features of how they are displayed. One you would probably want to
> use is "-delay" -- e.g.
> 
>   animate -delay 7 graph*.jpg
> 
> would pause for 7/100 seconds between successive images.
> 
> Another option is to create an "animated GIF" -- a single file
> which encapsulates several images and displays them in sequence
> when the file is opened with suitable software (most Web browsers
> do this well; likewise so does ImageMagick's 'display').
> 
> Programs which can create animated GIFs include the GIMP and
> gifsicle in the Free Software world. There are also several programs
> for non-Linux platforms.
> 
> Sorry I can't help with suggestions for creating .avi files.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Ted.
> 
> 
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